Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 28

He stood on the bank and smiled at Taffy, because he had a little girl-daughter Of his own at home.

Who acts: man · What happens: stand, smile, have · To what, where: bank, Taffy, little girl daughter, home

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 bank	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bank	det
5	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 smiled	cc
7	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 Taffy	case
9	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 smiled	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 daughter	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 daughter	amod
16	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 daughter	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 girl	punct
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
19	Of	of	ADP	_	21 own	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 own	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 daughter	nmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 home	case
23	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stand	past	man		the bank	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
2	smile	past	man not said here		Taffy	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	man	a little girl daughter of man's own	home	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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